Royal Society Pfizer Award
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The Royal Society Pfizer Award has been awarded by the Royal Society
since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. £60,000 is awarded as a grant for the recipient to carry out a research project that is linked to an African centre of scientific excellence, normally a University or equivalent research centre, and a further £5,000 is given directly to the prizewinner.
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. £60,000 is awarded as a grant for the recipient to carry out a research project that is linked to an African centre of scientific excellence, normally a University or equivalent research centre, and a further £5,000 is given directly to the prizewinner.
Winners
- 2006 - Alexis Nzila
- 2007 - Hiba Mohamed
- 2008 - Enock Matovu
- 2009 - Linda-Gail Bekker, director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
- 2010 - Collins Ouma of Maseno UniversityMaseno UniversityMaseno University is a university based in Maseno, near Kisumu, in Kenya and was founded in 1991. It is one of the seven public universities in Kenya. The University is located in Maseno Township along Kisumu-Busia road, some 25 km from Kisumu City and 400 km west of Nairobi. It has two campuses:...
External links
- http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=4215
- http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=7243